Jazz-blues turnarounds

Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks

IN MY PREVIOUS “Blues You Can Use” columns, I focused on what I consider to be essential rhythm guitar and accompanying single-note patterns that exemplify Chicago-style blues guitar, as heard in the

This month, Richard Barrett grabs his acoustic and shows you another way to expand your chord vocabulary

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Nearly 40 years on from the Custom Shop’s inception, its creations are more ambitious than ever. Find out how the team walks the tightrope between ‘canon’ and ‘cannot’, and where its guitars are heading next

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